Catholic Health Association and the future of Catholic unity : Catholic Advocate

Political hands have a term for this: "muddying the waters". Unfortunately, no genuinely pro-life spokesman with a title that confers authority in this area appeared to challenge her. There's only one CHA, and there are over a 100 bishops and no single bishop speaks for them all. Looking to the future, it is a fantasy for the CHA to think this is good for their hospitals. They won't have "their" hospitals much longer. New York City recently lost Cabrini, St. John's, Mary Immaculate, and St. Vincents. Catholic heath-care is extinct in New York City and it is because the government at all levels would not fund the indigent care which was mandated by the licenses of these hospitals. The government will standby as all the CHA hospitals fail in like manner and Catholic health care will be extinct in this country.

The Two Best Arguments against Repeal

(1) Universal health care is inevitable in social progress. Things are moving forward -- the end of child labor, a 40 hour work week, social security, health care for elderly, health care for the poor, and now health care reform for everyone. This is the inevitable progression of history.

(2) Republicans are nothing but hypocrites -- every socially progressive change they oppose politically and years later, when it is woven into the fabric of America, they dare not oppose it. Health care will be the next to be as beloved by Americans as Social Security. It's inconceivable that Social Security or Medicare could be repealed.

I'm going to be emailing this to my favorite conservative talk-show hosts.

Reaction to the imposition of a socialist healthcare scheme

(1) Tomorrow, March 22, 2010 will be one of the most important days in the history of the conservative movement. It will be a critical day to start to reverse the course that Obama has put this country on. (2) National politics from now until repeal will be dominated by health care, it will displace discussion of national security, taxation, the economy, etc. It will be not merely topic 1 but topics 1 through 10.

Reverse

I contributed to ReverseTheVote.org, but I think we need daily updates on what to do to influence the vote. There's a element of despair setting in that (a) this can't be fixed until the 2010 election, (b) this can't be fixed until the 2012 election, or (c) if you think socialized medicine can be stopped at this point, you probably also think that Social Security and Medicare can be "stopped" as well. Was this all baked into the nation's fabric on November 28, 1932?